Spinning Today (Classical version)

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-- totally yummy romantic chamber music. :)
Very much a neglected master, Paul Juon, imo.

Another hit from Ansermet.
This from TIDAL ....

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I don't know why it is, but for the last 45 years I have been under the misapprehension that Ansermet and his Suisse Romande Orchestra were 2nd or 3rd rate and I have ignored them accordingly.
Bloody hell, how wrong I was!
A week or so back I was blown away by their Beethoven 9th symphony, last night the same happened with the 4th.
And then this Sibelius 4th ....
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and then this ....
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All are amazingly good, and excellent sq, too.
Precision, articulation, delicacy, power ... but I still get swept away by the sheer emotional power of Ansermet's music making. :)
All courtesy of Tidal streaming.

More Ansermet, please! :)

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-- after learning the piece from Andrew Penny's Naxos recording this is a bit of a revelation.
It doesn't have the raw energy of Penny, but has a romantic sweep and passion that he rather misses.
Takes the works from excellent 2nd tier to very definitely knocking on the door of greatness. :)
The recording quality, too, is very different. The Naxos coolly transparent and incisive, compared to the luxuriant glow and huge surging power of the Chandos.
I look forward to exploring the rest of Hickox's cycle.

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Puccini - Tosca - Maria Callas : Opera in Three Acts : Victor De Sabata on Vinyl

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- excellent, really enjoyed this.
Love the title of one of the pieces - ODTAA - One Damn Thing After Another :)

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Ah bliss - this may well be a perfect rendition of Mozart's K563 masterpiece.
Played by this Hungarian trio with complete simplicity, no point making, no ugly emphasis, just pure sublime musical perfection. :thumbsup:

Then onto this with the same violinist ...
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-- once again, sublime perfection. :)

After Part's Stabat Mater, this seemed appropriate.
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Must be time to go and look for shooting stars now.

Yet more loveliness from violinist Kovacs. Can he do no wrong? :scratch:
Tidal
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Tidal
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An interesting comparison to the Danubius Quartet on Marco Polo (which I love). A bit livelier, and lighter sounding. More transparent recording, too.

LP
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Cor. Nice recording. Awesome performance! :thumbsup:

Mendelssohn's second Symphony

A purely vinyl listening session yesterday eve --

One of the treasures of my LP collection ....
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- including a superb transcription of the 2nd keyboard partita (one of my favourite works)

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Another of my favourite works, but I don't much like the way Horowitz plays it. It all sounds staccato to me. :scratch:
On my 'for sale' pile now.

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- beautiful transcriptions of some Shostakovich preludes. :)

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- quite good, I could wish for performances a bit lighter on their feet, I think.

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Wow. :eek:

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Excellent!

Another LP evening ....

Several concertos from this box set ...
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I do like Barenboim's Mozart. :)
This box set was one of a fair sized classical LP donation at a charity shop where I volunteer. I'll be putting quite a few up for sale once I have checked condition -- and decided which ones I am buying myself. ;) Not sure if this Mozart set will be among them.

And some more from the same charity donation ...

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-- a 6 LP set. Played some Chopin, Liszt and Saint Saens last night. :thumbsup:

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-- mine is a DMM pressing, and I'm a-keepin' it! :D
I don't usually like Perlman, but the VC2 was good. I may try him again on other works. :)

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Wow - magnificent. Another keeper. :)